A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

Apophis is 340 metres wide, about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis.

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the asteroid.

This is the third such telescopically detected object to hit Earth in 2024." Just last month, on September 5, 2024, another such asteroid was spotted just a few hours before it hit Earth.

A strange Earth shines in new imagery captured by a European asteroid mission. The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at ...

“It’s a way of going back in time, and asking: What were the original ingredients that made the Earth, and made us? What was the secret recipe?” Did a Second Asteroid Hit During Dino Extinctio ...

The risk of an asteroid wreaking havoc on our planet, wiping out large swathes of Earth and the humans on it, are real. But as science journalist Robin George Andrews writes in How to Kill an ...